Re: Top Ten? Compilations?

Alexees G. Hobson (alexees@wam.umd.edu)
Sat, 14 Oct 1995 09:18:57 -0400 (EDT)


Yes, I am in the process of conducting a 1995 poll.
Actually, everything is ready to go, but it is too
early. Expect a ballot in your mailboxes by early
November. In the meantime, here are last year's
results - I hope more people vote this time around.

Jazz On,
Alexees.

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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 12:27:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexees G. Hobson <alexees@wam.umd.edu>
To: Acid Jazz List <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Poll Results

Here are the results... 10 people voted...
Draw your own conclusions.
Jazz On,
Alexees.

Top Albums of 1994
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Portishead - Dummy (5 votes)
Groove Collective - Groove Collective (3 votes)
Brother Sister - Brand New Heavies (2 votes)
Protection - Massive Attack (2 votes)
Stolen Moments - Red, Hot & Cool Compilation (2 votes)
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (2 votes)
Headz Compilation (2 votes)
Return Of The Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai (2 votes)

(1 vote): Jazz In The Present Tense - Solsonics / Galactic
Rush - Jhelisa / Still Cookin' / Royalties Overdue / Positivity
- Incognito / Give 'Em Enough Dope Volume One / Acid Jazz Test
Part 1 / Quiet Revolution - Ronny Jordan / United Future
Organization / This Is Acid Jazz Volume 4 / Dorado 3 (File
Under Dorado) / Rite To Silence - The Sandals / Prose Combat -
MC Solaar / Ill Communication - Beastie Boys / Dressing For
Pleasure - Jon Hassell & Bluescreen / Krush - DJ Krush / #1 -
Skylab / Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab / People Tree - Mother
Earth / Unsettled Life - Emperor's New Clothes / Brownswood
Multidirections Project / Take Dis - Credit To The Nation / No
Sound Is Too Taboo - United Future Organization / Drive Thru
Booty - Freak Power / Starship In Worship - El Malo / American
Recordings - Johnny Cash

Top Songs of 1994
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Portishead - Sour Times (2 votes)
Tricky - Aftermath (2 votes)

(1 vote): Keep Together - Brand New Heavies / So Much More
Together - Solsonics / Rentstrike - Groove Collective / Still A
Friend Of Mine - Incognito / Cantaloop - US3 / Sweet Dreams
(4UIC) - Jhelisa / Motor Bass Get Funked Up - La Funk Mob /
Qui - Schkoonk Heepoz / Kruder & Dorfmeister - Original Bedroom
Rockers / Live From N.Y. - Sound Assembly / Poetry & All That
Jazz - United Future Organization / Daddy Love - Solsonics /
Step Into My Life - Incognito / 13th Key - Incognito /
Wortsport - [EM:ZEH] / Listen - Urban Species / Take A Ride
(Black Star Live) - Alphabet Soup / 9th Wonder - Digable
Planets / Breakin' Boundaries - La Funk Mob / Lost & Found - DJ
Shadow / Krush's Theme - DJ Krush / Sportif - Heights Of
Abraham / Kemuri - DJ Krush / Twyford Down - Galliano / Fresh
In My Mind - A Forest Mighty Black / Get Up, Get Down -
Fishbelly Black with Roy Ayers / Emergency on Planet Earth
(Masters At Work Remix) - Jamiroquai / Spiritual Love (Natural
Mix) - Urban Species / Do You Like It? - Skunkhour / Protection
- Massive Attack / Food Of My De-Rhythm - R.P.M. / Wassinit For
The Cynic? - Marxman / Y Ahora Tu - Up, Bustle & Out / Karma
Coma - Massive Attack / Bare - Spiritual Vibes / Contemplating
Jazz - Attica Blues / Vibe P.M. (Men From U.N.K.L.E. Remix) -
Mondo Grosso / Strangers - Portishead

Top Artists / Groups of 1994
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The Brand New Heavies (4 votes)
United Future Organization (4 votes)
Groove Collective (3 votes)
Portishead (3 votes)
MC Solaar (3 votes)
Digable Planets (2 votes)
DJ Shadow (2 votes)
La Funk Mob (2 votes)
Jamiroquai (2 votes)

(1 vote): Solsonics / James Taylor Quartet / Slide 5 / Palmskin
Productions / Kruder & Dorfmeister / Incognito / Buckshot
Lefonque / Sandals / Brooklyn Funk Essentials / DJ Krush /
Seefeel / Johnny Cash / Stereolab / Dana Bryant / Django Bates
/ Soul Bossa Trio / Massive Attack / Freak Power / Marxman /
El Malo / Spiritual Vibes / Mondo Grosso

Best Vocal Song of 1994
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(1 vote):
Mama Said - Carleen Anderson / Friendly Pressure - Jhelisa /
Still A Friend Of Mine - Incognito / Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash
/ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Dana Bryant / Dominica
Girdles - Dana Bryant / Do You Like It? - Skunkhour /
Contemplating Jazz - Attica Blues

Best Instrumental Song of 1994
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(1 vote):
Ascension - Solsonics / Original Bedroom Rockers - Kruder &
Dorfmeister / Journey To Arnhemland - Jamiroquai / Some Cow
Fonque - Buckshot LeFonque / Vinyl Junkie - United Future
Organization / Rahsannasong - Groove Collective / +ole - John
Coltrane / Food Of My De-Rhythm - R.P.M. / Mathar - Indian Vibes

"Easy Like Sunday Morning" Song of 1994
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Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai (2 votes)
Saturday Afternoon - Groove Collective (2 votes)

(1 vote): Rentstrike - Groove Collective / Vanston Place (00
AM) - Ronny Jordan / Anchor Song - Bjork / Still A Friend Of
Mine - Incognito

"Four On The Floor" Song of 1994
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(1 vote): Whatchugot - Groove Collective / Under Your Spell -
Ronny Jordan / Feet (Dust Bros. Remix) - Sandals / Hit The
Bongo - Tito Puente / Phatty's Lunch Box (Sureshit Mix) - Mekon
/ Vibe P.M. (Men From U.N.K.L.E. Remix) - Mondo Grosso

"Thick Morass Of Hazy Chronic Smoke" Song of 1994
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Buddha Head - Groove Collective (2 votes)

(1 vote): 9th Wonder - Digable Planets / Just Wanna Touch Her
(Stoned Jazz Mix) - DJ Krush / From The Ghetto - Dread
Flimstone / The Jackal (Illest Mix) - Ronny Jordan & DJ Krush
feat. Dana Bryant / Ponderosa - Tricky / Aftermath - Tricky

Best Compilation of 1994
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Give 'Em Enough Dope Volume One (2 votes)
Headz (2 votes)

(1 vote): Still Cookin' / Stolen Moments / Down To Earth / This
Is Acid Jazz Volume 4 / Dorado 3 (File Under Dorado) / Rebirth
Of Cool Volume 2 / Jazz Hip Jap / Blue Brazil

Best Label of 1994
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Mo' Wax (3 votes)
Dorado (2 votes)
Ubiquity (2 votes)

(1 vote): Acid Jazz / Luv N Haight / Talking Loud

Best Magazine of 1994
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Straight No Chaser (5 votes)

(1 vote): URB / Spin / On The One

Best Album Cover of 1994
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(1 vote): Buckshot Lefonque - Buchshot Lefonque / Ill
Communication - Beastie Boys / Blowout Comb - Digable Planets /
This Is Acid Jazz (New Voices) / Wakafrica - Manu Dibango /
Headz Compilation / Almost Normal - JMT Sampler / Protection -
Massive Attack / Extended Play - James Taylor Quartet

Best Club of 1994
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Giant Step N.Y.C. (2 votes)

(1 vote): BRASS / West Coast Jazz Massive S.F. / New Music Cafe
/ Re-Bar / Leave My Wife Alone Tour / The Wag, London /

Best DJ of 1994
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Gerry V (2 votes)

(1 vote): Premier / Adam X / Krush / Snowboy / Farid / Matt
Black / Jonathan More

Overrated Project of 1994
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Buckshot Lefonque (3 votes)
Positivity - Incognito (2 votes)
Ronny Jordan/DJ Krush (2 votes)

(1 vote): Guru's Jazzmatazz / Royalties Overdue / Wu Tang Clan
(each member goes solo)

Underrated Project of 1994
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Jazz In The Present Tense - Solsonics (2 votes)

(1 vote): Greyboy Allstars & Fred Wesley / Stolen Moments /
Heights of Abraham / Freakpower